Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,810, Robert Elwell, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Elwell Robert
NUMBER
S.34810
CONTENTS

10,140
Massachusetts Robert Glauk
of _____ in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of 14 months
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of May 1818 and payable to Mrs. Abigail Glauk same. Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  88.49 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 19, 1818  48 $136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Approved
Application sent October 18, 1820 to John Quincy Adams, Secy of War, Mass. Sts

Robt. Elwell
116
Enlisted Nov 1775
Wapsinuck Line
14 Months
not entitled to the pension because of
For Robt. Elwell died 1/2 years ago
Adm C.
This claimant is already on the Pension roll, which he must relinquish & return his certificate before a new one can be issued.

State of Massachusetts
I Robert Dwell — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of November in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred & seventy five —
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of January in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred & seventy seven being fourteen months — as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Warner in Colonel Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line of the Army, having enlisted therein for the year's service commencing on the first of January A.D. 1776. and that I left the service on the expiration of the term of service, being then honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty three years. My discharge this lapse of time is now lost & I have no other evidence in my power to offer than what is herewith exhibited
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Robert Dwell
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit within the State aforesaid presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Robert Dwell and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court I further certify that the within named Deponents are credible witnesses & disinterested June 15. 1818. — W m Wetmore

We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gloucester do testify & say that we are acquainted with the within named declarant & believe him to be in his circumstan- ces in life, reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his country for support & we never heard his character for or credit called in question.
John Hathridge } Overseers Eben Dake } of the Poor
I the subscriber late Colonel of a Regiment of Militia in the State of Massachusetts & a Lieutenant during the Revolutionary war in the Regiments of Colonels Hutchinson & Ropes, Mahan & in the Companies of Captains Putnam, Whipple & Gates, now residing at Gloucester in the State aforesaid do testify that the within named declarant served in Dorce & as I justly believe for the term stated by him —
John T. Root
Sworn to. 3 d April 1818. before me
W m Wetmore Judge within named

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Robert Elwell May 1819
Cont Sep 25-
(1820)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Robert Elwell resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10,140 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Robert Elwell late a private "in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate "of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first "day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen "Given at the War Office of the United States, this first day "of May , one thousand eight hundred and nineteen " J. G. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, NO real estate
  1 tea kettle 50 c 5 chairs 1.00 1 pot 75 c 1 coffee pot 33 c 5 knives & forks 33 c $ 2.91   1 trunk 1.00 5 cups & saucers 33 c 1 wash tub 9 c 1 old desk 1.00 1 chest 50 c 2.92   1 dish kettle 1.00 1 frye kettle 1.00 1 pair hand irons 1.00 3.00   $ 8.83 
And the said Robert Elwell further deposes and says, that he was a private soldier during the Revolutionary war; that he enlisted in October A. D. 1775 and was discharged in January A. D. 1777; that he was a soldier in Capt. Nathaniel Warner's company, in the twelfth Regiment in the Massachusetts line, commanded by Col. Moses Little; that he is sixty five years of age; that he has a wife who is 45 years old; has seven children, and three of them now live with me. The oldest of the children now with me is seventeen years old, the second fourteen and the third nine years of age; that he has been sick for eighteen months last past, and has been under the hands of a Physician during all that time. The Declarant further says that he has no children or relatives who are able to contribute to his support.
Robert Elwell
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore. Judge within names

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Robert Elwell do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Robert Elwell
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Robert Elwell took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
eighty dollars eighty three cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clk

I Robert Elwell of Gloucester in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts do solemnly swear, that I am not now nor never have been a Pensioner of any state in the Union or the United States prior to my application for a pension under the Act of the 18th of March, 1818: that my uncle by the name of Robert Elwell of this town received a Pension during his life; and that he died in the Alms House on the 27th day of March, A.D. 1805. That during the lifetime of S r Robert Elwell my uncle, I was called Robert Elwell the third ; and since his decease and another of the same name, I am now called Robert Elwell. Robert Elwell
We Abraham Williams and John Low both of Gloucester aforesaid do on oath testify and say, that we were well acquainted with bap t Robert Elwell of this town and to our knowledge he received a pension in his lifetime; and that he died in the Alms House in this town in the year 1805: and that Robert Elwell, the person now present who has made the above declaration, is not the Robert Elwell who has heretofore received a Pension and that his declaration to our knowledge and belief is just and true. Abraham Williams
John Low
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss April 2-1819
then Personally appeared before me the above named Robert Elwell Abraham Williams and John Low and made Oath to the truth of the declarations by them respectively signed and I certify that Abraham Williams and John Low above named are both Credible Witnesses and believed to be disinterested in their testimony
Isaac Elwell { Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss
April 5 th 1819.
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in and for said County, hereby certify that Isaac Elwell, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified to administer oaths; that his signature within written, is genuine; and that the seal affixed is the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State.
W th Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

34810
Rev INVALID.
Rev
File No. 34810
Robert Black
Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 584
[Arrangement of 1870.]

The undersigned, Overseers of the Poor of Gloucester, State of Massachusetts hereby certify, that it appears from the records in the Overseers Office, that Robert Elwell, formerly a Pensioner under the United States, died in the Almshouse in this place in 1805; and that Robert Elwell of said Gloucester, an applicant for a Pension under the Act of the 18th March, 1818 is not on the Pension list of the United States or any individual State to the best of our knowledge.
Gloucester, April 5. 1819
Eli Stacy John Kittredge
Ebenezer Dale M. Whipple
Overseers of Poor
At the annual Town-meeting held in Gloucester, on Monday March 8 th 1819.
At said Meeting.
Voted that five Overseers of the Poor be chosen for the current year, and Messrs. John Kittredge, William W. Barstow, Matthew Whipple, Ebenezer Dale and Eli Stacy, were accordingly chosen.
A true copy of Record from the Records of the Town of Gloucester, in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Attest. John Rogers. Town Clerk
Capt. Robert Elwell deceased at the Work-house in this Town, March 27 th 1805.
This certifies that the above is true copy of Record, from the Records of the Town of Gloucester aforesaid.
Attest. John Rogers. Town Clerk
Gloucester April 7. 1819

I Andrew Ingersoll of Gloucester in the county of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of sixty six years testify & say: That Robert Olwell of the same Gloucester served during the whole of the year A.D. 1776 as a private soldier in Captain Nathaniel Warner's company, in the Regiment of foot commanded by Moses Little, in the Revolutionary War, in the service of the United States against the com- mon enemy. I served in the same com- pany, during the same period: And I further depose that the said Robert Olwell here present, is the same Robert Olwell who served with me as aforesaid: Andrew Ingersoll
Essex ss. June 9. 1818. Then Andrew Ingersoll made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Gov. T. Hanson Clerk, Jno. Paris